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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
Funeral home owner accused of leaving body...
DENVER (AP) — A funeral home owner who is accused of keeping a woman’s corpse in the back of a hearse for over a year and improperly stashing more than 30 cremated remains is set to appear in court Friday to enter a plea. Miles Harford is scheduled enter a plea to two counts of forgery, one count of abuse of a corpse and one count of theft during an arraignment in state court in Denver. Harford, 34, is...

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Death of ex-One Direction member Liam Payne...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The death of Liam Payne, who shot to stardom as a member of the boy band One Direction and grappled with intense global fame while still in his teens, sent shockwaves across the world Thursday as Argentine authorities continued their investigation at the scene. Fans, music industry figures and fellow musicians paid tribute to Payne, 31, who died Wednesday after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. As fans and media swarmed the...

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Ionescu’s 3-pointer with 1 second left gives...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Sabrina Ionescu hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer from the top of the key with 1 second left and Breanna Stewart scored 30 points to help the New York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx 80-77 on Wednesday night, taking a 2-1 lead in the WNBA Finals. With the game tied at 77, Ionescu had the ball and dribbled around before pulling up a few steps behind the arc and hitting from 28 feet to break the tie. “I...

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Throwing a dinner party is a way...
When Sarah Bellinger, a Gen Z public relations executive, decided to throw her first dinner party, she invited just five friends and served her go-to recipe: a creamy Tuscan chicken pasta. “I wasn’t nervous, because it was just a small group of my closest friends, but I was definitely very excited. It felt like the most adult thing I did all month,” said Bellinger, who lives in East Hartford, Connecticut. The evening was a success, she says, and the...

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Alex Ovechkin records 700th career assist as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin assisted on goals by Tom Wilson and Aliaksei Protas, Logan Thompson made 24 saves against his former team and the Washington Capitals ended the Vegas Golden Knights’ season-opening winning streak at three with a 4-2 victory on Tuesday night. Ovechkin, who is chasing Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goals record, became the 60th player in league history to record 700 assists. He has three assists through Washington’s first two games of the season and remains...

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Why you shouldn’t store your money in...
NEW YORK (AP) — Connor Tomasko grew up wary of credit cards. As she taught herself more about managing money, she realized that many people also have bad habits when it comes to payment apps. Tomasko, 31, a freelance software consultant in Chicago, understands why people appreciate the ease of the apps, which typically only require you to know someone’s username in order to send money. But she realized that keeping money in the apps could be risky and...

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Intuit Dome opens its doors to Los...
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The flashy new Intuit Dome opened its doors to basketball fans for the first time Monday night as the Los Angeles Clippers hosted a preseason game against the Dallas Mavericks. The arena has been hosting concerts since August, but this is the first game in the more than $2 billion vision of Clippers owner Steve Ballmer. Fans streamed in through doors using facial recognition. A double-sided halo board showed photos, videos, statistics and more. The...

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Middle East latest: Israel faces mounting criticism...
Criticism mounted Monday over attacks on United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated the warning for them to temporarily leave the area where the military is operating against Hezbollah militants. The U.N. Security Council expressed “strong concern.” The European Union condemned the attacks and rejected Israeli allegations that the U.N. was keeping them there to obstruct military operations against Hezbollah. Five peacekeepers were wounded in attacks since Israel began a ground campaign against...

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Stock market today: Wall Street ticks higher...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are ticking higher Monday to add to their all-time high s. The S&P 500 was up 0.5% in midday trading and building on its record set on Friday The Dow Jones Industrial Average came back from an early loss to rise 118 points and add 0.3% to its own record, as of 11:30 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was up 0.6%. The drift upward followed relatively quiet trading in Europe, while...

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Mateusz Bogusz, Ilie Sánchez lead LAFC to...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Mateusz Bogusz scored 35 seconds into the match, Ilie Sánchez found the net during second-half stoppage time, and Los Angeles FC pulled out a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Sunday night. Bogusz used assists from David Martínez and Olivier Giroud to score his career-high 15th goal of the season for LAFC (18-8-7). Martínez notched his fourth assist in his 16th career appearance and Giroud picked up his third in his ninth career...

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Middle East latest: Iran indirectly threatens US...
Iran on Sunday warned the U.S. to keep its military forces out of Israel. The comments came in a post on the social platform X long associated with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who helped reached Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Araghchi referred to the possibility that the U.S. might send one of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems to Israel. Any move of one of the systems, known by the acronym THAAD, to Israel would involve...

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In an engineering feat, mechanical SpaceX arms...
SpaceX pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket on Sunday, catching the returning booster back at the launch pad with mechanical arms. A jubilant Elon Musk called it “science fiction without the fiction part.” Towering almost 400 feet (121 meters), the empty Starship blasted off at sunrise from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border. It arced over the Gulf of Mexico like the four Starships before it that ended up being...

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Mets go from rock bottom in May...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The New York Mets hit rock bottom in late May, the nadir being a three-game home sweep at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Mets fell to a season-worst 11 games under .500 after getting outscored 18-5 in that series, punctuated by reliever Jorge López throwing his glove into the stands after getting ejected and then giving a bizarre postgame interview. The team cut him hours later. Star shortstop Francisco Lindor called a...

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Floridians evacuated for Hurricane Milton after wake-up...
BRANDON, Fla. (AP) — Florida residents who fled hundreds of miles to escape Hurricane Milton made slow trips home on crowded highways, weary from their long journeys and the cleanup work awaiting them but also grateful to be coming back alive. “I love my house, but I’m not dying in it,” Fred Neuman said Friday while walking his dog outside a rest stop off Interstate 75 north of Tampa. Neuman and his wife live in Siesta Key, where Milton...

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